Detecting eyeless spiders

Scientists have just welcomed the newest member of the prey spider family, which is an invisible spider (no eye).

Predatory spiders, like most other spiders, are naturally equipped to 8 eyes. So called the spider family is a multi-label species.

Close-up of the spotted face of the spider - (Photo: Senckenberg)

However, the researchers found that the first genus of this spider family had absolutely no eyes when choosing life that never saw the light in a deep cave.

Expert Peter Jäger of the Senckenberg Research Institute (Germany) said that spiders were found in a cave in Laos, about 100km from the giant cave Bang Fai.

Named Sinopoda scurion , this is the first unidentified species discovered among 1,100 species of known predatory spider families in the world, according to a report on Zootaxa.

Sinopoda scurion spider compensates for long legs - (Photo: Senckenberg)

The expert said that it is the living habits in the dark that could be the reason why new spiders do not need to use their eyes in daily activities.

Some of its brother spider species live in other caves also have appropriate adjustments, from 8 eyes to 6, 4, 2 eyes, and to the blind spider (but still have eyes), according to Jäger expert. .